folksiness

Example Sentences

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Lanier leaned on his down-home Texas folksiness throughout the trial, telling the jury what was on his heart and scribbling with grease pencil on his demonstrative aids.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

In 2008, John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who entranced the GOP elites with her good looks and her plain-spoken, rural folksiness, seemed to be their dream come true.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

His boyhood embodied the kind of folksiness that he would later deconstruct in works that rendered classic American imagery — road signs, billboards, the 20th Century Fox logo — into foreign abstractions.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2020

When I finally exited the interstate and visited downtown, which has a very walkable 23-block commercial core lined mostly with historic, two-story brick buildings, I found a rough-edged folksiness I fell in love with.

From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2019

Sam Rockwell finds a funny, relaxed folksiness in George W. Bush, and Tyler Perry is effective as a concerned Colin Powell.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2018